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March 20, 2009

Find Images that Contain a Certain Color

Google Image Search has a new option that lets you restrict the results based on their color. For now, the option is not available in the user interface, but you can tweak the search results URL to try it.

Searching for [red bird] shows good results, but you can still find some unrelated images. What if you search for [bird] and restrict the results to red images? Here's the URL:

Not quite. The options that were available in that experimental sidebar are not new and can be accessed from the advanced search page. You can restrict the results to black&white images, grayscale and full color images, but you can't pick a more specific color.

Though I always like new Google features I'm still trying to figure out the real advantage of this option. A direct search for e.g. "blue car" or "red bird" gives me the same, if not better, results...

@Anonymous:You're missing the point, since the feature you've mentioned has been available at Google since the launch of the image search engine. The new feature lets you refine the results by picking a predominant color.

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